Author: Garrett Eberhardt
Left-Handed Girl: A Slice of Alice Character Study with a Twist (Middleburg Film Festival)
Fresh off of his stellar Oscar winning run last year for Anora, Sean Baker’s first foray back into theaters is as a co-writer and producer of a Taiwanese film by director/writer Shih-Ching Tsou. Left-Handed Girl tracks the lives…
Read More »Train Dreams: Life Goes On (Middleburg Film Festival)
Train Dreams follows Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a logger who works the forests of the Pacific Northwest, helping to create a new world at the turn of the 20th century. They say that life must, and always does, go…
Read More »Christy is a Stark Depiction of the Cycle of Abuse (Middleburg Film Festival)
Christy Martin rose to fame and prominence in the 1990s as the pioneering champion and personality in the burgeoning sport of women’s boxing. Promoted by the legendary Don King and fighting on Mike Tyson undercards, she helped to…
Read More »Die My Love Takes an Unflinching Look at Mental Health
After nearly ten years since her last feature film , director Lynne Ramsey returns to theaters. Die My Love follows Grace (Jennifer Lawrence) and Jackson (Robert Pattinson), a young couple who move from New York City to Jackson’s rural…
Read More »It Was Just An Accident Presents a Compelling Moral Dilemma
Iranian writer/director Jafar Panahi has been through quite a lot in his determination to speak against the Iranian regime. Jailed twice over the past 15 years for being accused of producing propaganda against the state and conducting a…
Read More »Nouvelle Vague: For the Rule Breakers (Middleburg Film Festival)
French New Wave with experimentation in new filmmaking techniques like the use of natural light, jump cut editing, and auteurism was a revolution in cinema that left an indelible mark on the medium. One of its most notable…
Read More »Bugonia Hearkens Back To Post-War Sci-Fi Allegory (Middleburg Film Festival)
Emma Stone and writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos have been on a heater as a creative duo since 2018’s The Favourite making three films together that garnered 20 Academy Award nominations including two for Stone with one win for Best Actress. The…
Read More »Guillermo Del Toro Brings His Usual Magic to the Classic Tale of Frankenstein
You know the general framework of the story of Frankenstein by now; a brilliant but egotistical scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein. (Oscar Isaac) conducts an experiment where he brings a monstrous creature to life (Jacob Elordi) in a daring…
Read More »Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere Powered By Quality Performances (Middleburg Film Festival)
Musical biopics have seen a renaissance over the past decade and yet another musical legend’s story has made it to the big screen. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere covers a specific, pivotal time in Bruce Springsteen’s, played by…
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Rental Family: Uncomfortable Lies Exchanged For Comfortable Truths (Middleburg Film Festival)
After 2022’s “Brenaissance” that saw the actor make a triumphant return to Hollywood with his Academy Award winning turn in The Whale, Brendan Fraser hits the big screen for his first starring role since bringing home the Oscar….
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